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30 Days of Writing About My Body, Day 4
10 Reasons to Be Fat 1. So your hands can’t reach all the way around when you try to hug me. So I can’t be trapped. 2. Cause nothing feels as good as cake tastes. 3. Everybody’s doing it. 4. Who...
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30 Days of Writing About My Body, Day 5
“Some tissue, such as bone, is especially dynamic. Each body structure has its own rate of reformation: the lining of the stomach renews itself in a week; the skin is entirely replaced in a month; the...
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Writing About My Body, Day 7
What I can control about the appearance of my body: how full my fat cells are, what clothes I put on my body, what products I put on my body in terms of keeping my skin moisturized, protecting my skin...
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Writing About My Body, Day 8
These days it’s hard to beat back the shame. After working really hard to lose weight–again–I’ve gained back not all, but pretty darn close to all the weight. Again. This time I was pretty sure I’d...
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Writing About My Body, Day 9
Nine Thoughts About my Body 1. Maybe I’m going about it all wrong. Maybe I should be trying to live fully in the curves and lumps, folds and flab of this body. What if I should stop trying to be less...
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Writing About My Body, Day 10
It’s hard to feel unbeautiful when Josh Groban has his mellifluous tongue (virtually) stuck in my ear. And also when I’m drinking a bottle of sauvignon blanc I bought at the corner store on my way home...
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Open Letter to Patti Smith, Day One
Dear Patti– I’ve been trying to write to you for months now. Things I should tell you follow behind me place to place like a trail of breadcrumbs, or a swarm of bill collectors. I type and delete, type...
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